Alexander Pushkin
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4 out of 5 stars.Natalya Romaniw is a glorious Tatyana in Scottish Opera’s new show, wonderfully conducted by Stuart Stratford and incorporating extra parts of Pushkin’s novel
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Opera tells how radical killed in a duel with his wife’s suspected lover transformed Russia’s literary language
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It won’t take much longer to read You Were Never Really Here than watch the new film – so it’s a good moment to celebrate the lasting joys of brevity
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His black great-grandfather was abducted as a child and raised in Peter the Great’s court. A new Pushkin translation includes the little-known history of Russia’s Shakespeare
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Don’t trust a woman who wears too much perfume and know your limits – Viv Groskop on the 10 top tips Chekhov, Tolstoy and others have for us today
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The father of the Soviet Union was also a Latin buff who adored Goethe and liked to compare his enemies to figures in novels
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Anthony Briggs’s new version of the classic verse-novel is the first in English not to Anglicise the hero’s name
Books blog A Pushkin theme park? How about Discworld World, StephenKingLand …